Is the Enemy Heart or Flesh?
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Paul's Passing Thoughts 
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Randy,
I deleted your comment because like all Calvinists, you misrepresent the premise of your argument. You wish to address my friend Brian, who is a very busy person, by allowing him to think you are challenging him based on the same metaphysical presuppositions. That is a lie, and a stealing of his God-given time by allowing him to think your argumentation has the same view of reality. You filthy liar, you know grade A well that you believe that “flesh” is a realm and that “Spirit” is a realm and that there is no righteousness in the believer at all. “Believers” can only EXPERIENCE goodness but it is not a part of their being. The heart has a capacity to experience “vivification.” Like standing in the rain, we experience the rain, but it is not a part of our being. You do what all Calvinists do: you use the fact of infused righteousness into vessels of clay (mortality) to lodge an accusation of Gnosticism. This is deliberate deception based on a totally different premise while knowing that the other person is not arguing from that premise. It is deliberate theft of other people’s time for the purposes of deception. Gnostics don’t believe in a dichotomy of good and evil within the being, they don’t believe there is any good in man at all because he is matter. The dichotomy is between material evil and invisible good, or Plato’s immutable pure forms. And that is the premise of Luther’s Heidelburg Disputation, and the foundation of the Calvin Institutes stated in 1.1.1.
I have your number Bubba, you’re wasting your time here in your endeavor to accumulate more fruits for wrath.
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Sorry Randy, here at PPT, we communicate on the basis of interpreting reality via a common understanding of what words mean literally and according to commonly accepted grammatical rules. Not interpreting reality according to Luther’s cross metaphysics does not make me theologically inept.
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Again Randy, you can call me an idiot, but the fact remains that you deem my arguments as a threat–from an “idiot” no less. Randy, I understand that philosopher kings have many duped into thinking they have direct access to God and rule by proxy accordingly, but many words are not going to convince me of that. Are you not satisfied with tending to those who are being led astray into the pits of hell by you?
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“A common understanding of what words mean literally.”
So, in your view “flesh” means the physical material of which our bodies are composed, as in “flesh and blood?” That would be what the word literally means. I guess you truly are a Gnostic.
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Randy, in the same way that snake venom is useful for some purposes, some things that you say are useful for my purposes. Don’t get me wrong, I am not opening up a dialogue with you, I just think that this snippet is helpful for some in order to make a point. “Literal” doesn’t mean Augustinian allegory and doesn’t exclude multiple use of words for “human terms.” By “flesh,” Paul means mortality. We have God’s seed, and are born of Him, but dwell in mortal bodies. A literal meaning does not demand that sin abides in the material part of our being. Randy, is this where you admit that you believe the “flesh” is a realm like your Gnostic daddy John Calvin?
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Only 680 words on that one. C’mon Randy, do a bigger one for me to delete–makes me feel good.
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